Origins of Industrialization
The country where industrialization first began.
What is Britain?
The first European country after Britain to industrialize.
What is Belgium?
By 1900, this country became a leading industrial power.
What is the United States?
The first Asian country to industrialize.
What is Japan?
This crop from the United States was used in British textile factories.
What is cotton?
This system had workers spinning cotton into cloth in their homes before factories.
What is the cottage industry system?
This country’s industrialization was slowed by the **French Revolution and wars.
What is France?
A key reason for U.S. industrial success was a large workforce known as this.
What is human capital?
Japan adopted Western technology to protect its culture in a process called this.
What is defensive modernization?
Rubber from this region supplied materials for tires and footwear.
What is the Brazilian Amazon?
Machines used to spin cotton helped meet the growing demand for trade.
What are spinning machines?
This country industrialized rapidly after it unified in 1871.
What is Germany?
Many workers in U.S. factories came from this group entering the country.
What are immigrants?
Japan became a major world power during the late part of this century.
What is the 19th century?
This product from West Africa was used to make soap and cooking oil.
What is palm oil?
Cotton became valuable in the world economy because Britain had this advantage.
What is higher productivity?
After unification, this country became a leading producer of coal and this metal.
What is steel?
Russia focused heavily on building this type of transportation.
What are railroads?
This country lost much of its textile markets because of European production.
What is Egypt?
This Caribbean export was refined in Britain.
What is sugar?
These three important factors helped countries industrialize like Britain.
What are capital, natural resources, and water transportation?
These two Asian and European countries also industrialized later in the 1800s.
What are Russia and Japan?
This famous railroad connected Moscow to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
British colonization heavily affected industry in this South Asian country.
What is India?
Russia became the fourth largest producer of this industrial metal by 1900.
What is steel?